Reducing Misinformation Credibility: How Explanations Impact the Effectiveness of Social Media Warning Labels and Fact-Checking Source Recall - Paul Mena, 2025 Social media platforms have been using warning labels to alert users of misinformation. Although research has shown that flagging can be effective in reducing t...

New study finds that adding brief explanations to misinformation warning labels makes them more effective by reducing belief in false information and helping people remember who fact-checked the content.
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Florida International University

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

“grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology. For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
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